Okay, it’s not often (see never), you’ll find me quoting Julian Assange other than with an inebriated smirk. Although erudite, I think of the man as kind of a digital-age Abbie Hoffman whose primary cause is to increase the relative importance of himself. And we haven’t heard much from Assange lately, holed up as he is in the Ecuadoran Embassy ...
Whether you’re a democrat or a republican, I would hope that you can look at the US invasion of Iraq with analytical detachment, and as such, I believe it is both fair and relevant to identify President Bush as having a crusader’s mentality. For better or worse, I happen to think he legitimately believed that the relatively simple job of toppling Saddam Hussein would lead to ...
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin